Since y'all are discussing inetd.conf, here is something else to
consider.
Doug
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Studded <stud...@gorean.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <d...@flood.ping.uio.no>
CC: freebsd-b...@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnat-sub...@freebsd.org,a...@wnm.net
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/11796; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <d...@flood.ping.uio.no>
> To: a...@wnm.net
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf
> Date: 01 Jun 1999 16:26:46 +0200
>
> a...@wnm.net writes:
> > The default /etc/inetd.conf contains commented out lines for enabling
> > identd. Both relevant lines refer to the 'ident' service, which is,
> > according to /etc/services, really 'auth', as it should be.
>
> Oh?
>
> r...@des ~# grep -w 113 /etc/services
> auth 113/tcp ident tap #Authentication Service
> auth 113/udp ident tap #Authentication Service
> Works just fine, thank you very much :)
The man page for identd says in part,
The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file
/etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the
service name must be the official name of the service (that is, the first
entry in /etc/services).
Therefore the first entry should definitely be changed. The second
entry in the inetd.conf file is for a non-internal identd daemon, but some
versions of the software are more picky than others, and the fact that one
of them might "work" doesn't mean that the configuration file isn't in
error.
At minimum the following patch should be applied. Ideally you
would add a comment to the fact that the two entries in inetd.conf are
mutually exclusive.
Thanks,
Doug
--- inetd.conf.Dist Sun May 9 06:31:40 1999
+++ inetd.conf Wed Jun 16 12:49:51 1999
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@
#
# Return error for all "ident" requests
#
-#ident stream tcp nowait root internal
+#auth stream tcp nowait root internal
#
# example entry for the optional ident server
#
-#ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd
-w -t120
+#auth stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd
-w -t120
#
# example entry for the optional qmail MTA
#
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